Elbow Beach has co-led a £3.65m funding round into sees.ai, a Chichester startup building autonomous drone technology now being deployed by National Grid for critical infrastructure inspection.

sees.ai’s proprietary technology enables the remote operation of complex, close-quarter missions nationwide around live power lines, oil and gas assets, nuclear facilities, railways and other critical infrastructure.

The company is backed by Boeing and was the first in the UK to secure Civil Aviation Authority authorisation for routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) missions.